Dr. iur. Richard Menapace
Of Counsel | Dr. iur. | LL.M. (Harvard)
“If you can’t explain it simply, you haven’t understood it well enough.”
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) attributed
Career
1999 – 2014
Legal Member of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO
3.2.06 (mechanics), 3.3.01 und 3.3.09 (chemistry), 3.5.03 (physics)
Member of the Presidium of the Boards of Appeal
Enlarged Board of Appeal (since 2006)
Legal Board of Appeal
Disciplinary Board of Appeal (since 2000)
1985 – 1999
Directorate Patent Law at the EPO (also Head of Unit)
Legal aspects of the grant and opposition procedure (internal and external consulting)
Legally qualified member of Opposition Divisions (special legal questions, taking of evidence, in particular witness hearings)
Participation in and, in part, also drafting of the wording of amendments to several regulations (in particular EPC Implementing Regulations, Directives, internal Instructions), legislative implementation of the official policy and the case law of the Boards of Appeal.
1983 – 1985 Attorney-at-law in Salzburg
1977 LL.M. Harvard Law School
1975 Graduate of Collège d’Europe, Brügge/Belgium
1974 Dr. iur. Universität Wien
Languages
German, English, French, Italian